Work on Snowy Hydro 2.0 to start 'within days' | Sky News Australia

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has given the green light to Snowy 2.0, claiming it will lower power prices, improve reliability and reduce emissions. Mr Morrison says shovels will be ready to break ground as early as Friday as he visited one of Snowy Hydro's stations.

The Prime Minister was on Tuesday flanked by Finance Minister Mathias Cormann, Energy Minister Angus Taylor and Environment Minister Melissa Price to announce the commonwealth will stump up $1.38 billion for the $4.5 billion project. The pet project of former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull will begin contributing to the grid in 2024, when its expected to curb power prices by up to 10 per cent.

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What! Snowy 2 expands on one the biggest engineering projects that made Australia. It adds to a CLEAN & RELIABLE base load power that increases security of supply & creates 100's of jobs in the area.Pauline this project is all about your voter base OneNationAus PaulineHansonOz

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